diesel-dyke n.
1. (orig. US) a conspicuously masculine lesbian.
![]() | Holy Barbarians 316: A highpower lesbian [...] diesel-dyke, bull-dyke. | |
![]() | These Curious Pleasures [ebook] Listened to enough confessions from soft-hearted diesel dykes. | |
![]() | Deep Down In The Jungle 264: Some very male-imitating lesbians are also called diesel-dykes. | |
![]() | N.Y. Unexpurgated 179: Gianni’s, 153 W. 19th. Diesels and tiger lilies from the old Sea Colony’s have linked with ballistic dollies prancing [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![]() | Essential Lenny Bruce 216: A real obvious diesel dike. | |
![]() | Lesbianism 125: She’s rough, she’s tough, she swaggers and swears. She wears fly front trousers and hobnailed boots. She hides her breasts and gets her hair cut at the local barber’s. She is [...] everybody’s image of the lesbian. Known variously as a bull, a stomper, a bad butch, a hard dresser, a truck driver, a diesel dyke, a bull dagger. | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 70: ‘You butch? Don’t make me laugh—a diesel has more hair on her chest than you do’. | |
![]() | Dead Zone (1980) 364: Couple of old alky diesel-dykes, that’s what they are. | |
![]() | Advocate (L.A.) 23 June 52/1: The gay minority was to be peopled with solid citizens, not flitty faggots or diesel dykes. | |
![]() | Godson 119: ‘They’re nearly all diesels’. | |
![]() | Gay (S)language. | |
![]() | Homeboy 83: That dieseler wont fuck with us no more. [Ibid.] 93: The dieseldyke held her breath to better hear, swearing vengeance. | |
![]() | (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches of the rough crowd were referred to as ‘diesel dykes’ or ‘truck drivers’. | |
![]() | Queer Kind of Death 210: ‘You recognize the diesel she’s talking to?’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![]() | Another Day in Paradise 151: Lipstick lesbos and muscle-bound, badly tattooed diesel dykes. | |
![]() | Destination: Morgue! (2004) 207: It was an ex-head shop. Some diesel dykes ran it. | ‘Hollywood Fuck Pad’ in|
![]() | Cherry Pie [ebook] A bunch of femos and diesel dykes. | |
![]() | The Force [ebook] ‘[Y]our wife will be in Danbury with the diesels and the bull dykes’. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
![]() | Same Old Grind 134: Fritzi took a diesel dyke stance behind Diane’s chair. | |
![]() | Official and Doubtful 347: I’ve known women who managed it with a diesel-dyke haircut and a pair of dungarees. |